And it grew great - It became very powerful. This was eminently true of Antiochus, after having subdued Egypt, and so on.

Even to …

The host of heaven.— Probably meaning the stars, as Jeremiah 33:22, but in a metaphorical sense indicating the people of Israel. (…

Here Daniel continues the vision he had received. We have already shown the object of the Almighty to be the preparation of the faithful to bear se…

And it grew great, even to the host of heaven
The people of the Jews, the army of the living God, the church militan…

God gives Daniel a foresight of the destruction of other kingdoms, which in their day were as powerful as that of Babylon. If we could foresee the …